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Rick Senger
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Posted: 12 March 2007 at 7:31pm \| IP Logged \| 1

259 = About as good as the Fantastic Four ever gets.

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Derek Muthart
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Posted: 12 March 2007 at 8:30pm \| IP Logged \| 2

The second issue of the trilogy. FF has never, NEVER been as good since. No one has even come close.

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Posted: 13 March 2007 at 1:33am \| IP Logged \| 3

259 = About as good as the Fantastic Four ever gets.

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FF has never, NEVER been as good since.

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Gee -- sorry my run was all crap from this point on.

(Fans is so cruel, snif snif)

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Michael Arndt
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Posted: 13 March 2007 at 3:54am \| IP Logged \| 4

Great cover for a great issue. Loved the Thing going head to head with Terrax. My favorite scene is when Terrax sends Ben on a ride via a wave of rocks. Wow.Also loved Sue going up against Dr. Doom. Just shows how far she has come under JB's reign. Little things I liked were seeing part of the Fantasicar again, seeing the Silver Surfer at the end, and the use of the flare gun.

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Posted: 13 March 2007 at 5:51am \| IP Logged \| 5

Gee -- sorry my run was all crap from this point on.

(Fans is so cruel, snif snif)

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Sorry John, I'm biased. Doctor Doom and your own inks. It didn't get any better for me than that.

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Andrew Davey
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Posted: 13 March 2007 at 7:22am \| IP Logged \| 6

Great Issue!

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Kip Krasean
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Posted: 13 March 2007 at 8:17pm \| IP Logged \| 7

I've been a lurker since the AOL days, posting a couple times since, but I joined this board yesterday just to say:

This was the first JB comic I ever bought, the first time I cared who wrote and drew a comic book, and it began my comic addiction that continued until, well, Blood of the Demon #17.

Thanks for the entertainment, JB; and to the rest of you who keep me coming back daily to read this board.

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Posted: 14 March 2007 at 5:52pm \| IP Logged \| 8

This issue and the next are in my top 5 favorite comics of all time.

This one caused me to subscribe to the FF, back in the day.

JB: Are you doing something different when rendering the Thing's teeth?

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Posted: 14 March 2007 at 6:37pm \| IP Logged \| 9

I can remember the first FF book I read done by JB...it was the one in which Dr. Doom and the PuppetMaster transfered the FF's minds to little androids (puppets?) in Dr. Doom's lab. this would have been around 1981 or so and I was still in high school. I had always enjoyed JB's work on the X-Men (and his short run with the Avengers prior to that). Next to Kirby, JB is still my favorite comic book artist. I just always felt that his characters looked so damned lifelike. The stories were excellent too and took me back to when I was a kid in the 60's and 70's. I mentioned this before but as a 44 year old father of 3, I miss having new comics that I would be comfortable with my children reading. They are out there I know but sometimes a hero, no matter how conflicted or troubled or tempted, needs to be a hero. Don't mean to rant...just one of the reasons I largely moved away from the comics in the 90's.

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